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1978 studio album by Blue Mitchell

Summer Soft

Studio album by Blue Mitchell

Released

February 22, 1978

Recorded

1977

Genre

Jazz

Length

40:23

Blue Mitchell chronology

Stablemates
(1977)

Summer Soft
(1978)

Summer Soft is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell, recorded in 1977 and released on the Impulse! label in 1978. It was his final album.

Reception

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "Although there are some fine players on this LP they are largely wasted on inferior material and commercial arrangements".

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Track listing

"Try Not to Forget" (Cedar Walton) – 7:20
"Summer Soft" (Stevie Wonder) – 5:55
" A Day at the Mint" (Blue Mitchell) – 6:15
"Love Has Made Me a Dreamer" (Mike Dosco, Esmond Edwards) – 4:50
"Evergreen" (Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams) – 4:37
"30 Degrees to the Wind" (Cedar Walton, Susan Brickell) – 5:53
"Funkthesizer" (Eddie Harris) – 5:33

Recorded in ABC Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California in 1977.

Personnel

Blue Mitchell – trumpet (tracks 1 & 3–7), flugelhorn (track 2), vocals (track 7)
Eddie Harris (track 7), Harold Land (tracks 1, 2 & 6), Herman Riley (track 3) – tenor saxophone
Cedar Walton – piano (tracks 1, 2 & 6), electric piano (track 3)
Bobby Lyle – electric piano (track 2), piano (tracks 5 & 7)
Richard Tee – keyboard (track 4)
Michael Boddicker – synthesizer (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 6)
Mike Dosco, Lee Ritenour (track 4) – guitar
Scott Edwards – bass
James Gadson – drums
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Waters Willard, Oren Waters – vocals (tracks 2, 4, 6 & 7)

References

Blue Mitchell discography accessed June 14, 2011
Fraser, C. Gerald (24 May 1979). "Blue Mitchell, 49, Jazzman, Dies; A Trumpeter With Horace Silver". The New York Times. p. D21.
^ Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed June 14, 2011

v t e Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)

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